You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.